What is another word for mire?
659 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ m_ˈaɪə], [ mˈa͡ɪ͡ə], [ mˈaɪə]Table of Contents
Similar words for mire:- bog down (noun)
- crisis (noun)
- dilemma (noun)
- dirt (noun)
- filth (noun)
- get stuck (noun)
- hell (noun)
- hindrance (noun)
- marsh (noun)
- mire (noun)
- muck, morass (noun)
- object (noun)
- ooze (noun)
- quandary (noun)
- slime (noun)
- sludge (noun)
- slush (noun)
- swamp (noun)
- bemire (verb)
- delay, catch up in (verb)
- detain (verb)
- embrangle (verb)
- embroil (verb)
- hinder (verb)
- implicate (verb)
- involve (verb)
- retard (verb)
- set back (verb)
- slow (verb)
- other synonyms
- bemire
- embrangle
- embroil
- set back
- slow
- other relevant words
Definition for Mire:
- To stick or entangle; to involve in difficulties; often used in the passive or predicate form; as, we got mired in bureaucratic red tape and it took years longer than planned.
Synonyms for Mire:
n.
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- muddy.
- hades,
- holocaust,
- furnace,
- gehenna,
- abyss,
- oven,
- inferno,
- horror,
- styx,
- morass,
- bedlam,
- purgatory,
- limbo.
- stoppage,
- barrier,
- congestion,
- blockade,
- impedance,
- inhibition,
- frustration,
- encumbrance,
- blockage,
- opposition,
- bafflement,
- impasse,
- entrapment,
- constipation,
- obstacle,
- disadvantage,
- resistance,
- impediment,
- hurdle,
- interruption,
- complication,
- obstruction,
- constraint,
- restraint,
- entanglement,
- drawback,
- hindrance,
- restriction,
- damper,
- deterrent.
- mire.
v.
•bemire (verb)- be mire,
- be-mires,
- be-grimed,
- be-mired,
- be-grimes,
- be-mire,
- be-miring,
- be-grime,
- be miring,
- be grimes,
- be griming,
- be grimed,
- be mired,
- be-griming,
- be grime,
- be mires.
- de-lays,
- de lay,
- re-strains,
- re strains,
- re-straining,
- in terns,
- in-tern,
- de-lay,
- with holding,
- hanged up,
- de tain,
- de-tains,
- in tern,
- re served,
- in-terns,
- with-held,
- slows up,
- re-served,
- slowing down,
- with holds,
- re-serve,
- re straining,
- with hold,
- re serve,
- re-strain,
- re-serves,
- re serving,
- de-laying,
- with held,
- hanging up,
- sending up,
- with-holds,
- re-serving,
- re strained,
- de laying,
- with-hold,
- de lays,
- re strain,
- hangs up,
- de-tain,
- slowing up,
- slows down,
- re-strained,
- de tains.
- dis order,
- dis ordering,
- dis uniting,
- dis-united,
- caused trouble,
- in-criminating,
- de ranging,
- dis-unite,
- de-ranging,
- dis unites,
- dis-orders,
- in-criminates,
- in-criminated,
- dis-ordering,
- de-range,
- in-criminate,
- de-ranged,
- in criminated,
- de ranges,
- de-ranges,
- dis-ordered,
- in criminates,
- in criminate,
- de range,
- dis-unites,
- causes trouble,
- dis united,
- dis-uniting,
- de ranged,
- dis orders,
- dis unite,
- dis ordered,
- in criminating,
- dis-order.
- constrain,
- choke,
- deter,
- resist,
- handicap,
- complicate,
- obstruct,
- hinder,
- crimp,
- impair,
- check,
- restrict,
- dam,
- counter,
- burden,
- cramp,
- frustrate,
- curb,
- cripple,
- bottleneck,
- foul,
- hamstring,
- bung,
- interrupt,
- stay,
- paralyze,
- snarl,
- stop,
- clog,
- thwart,
- catch,
- impede,
- restrain,
- baffle,
- hamper,
- delay,
- drag,
- snag,
- constipate,
- bar,
- block,
- inhibit,
- brake,
- fetter,
- oppose,
- jam,
- congest,
- plug.
- laying door,
- laying at one door,
- pointed finger at,
- lay at ones door,
- lay door,
- in sinuate,
- laying one's door,
- laid one door,
- laid at one's door,
- re late,
- lays one's door,
- laid at ones door,
- lay one's door,
- lays at one door,
- in sinuates,
- laid door,
- lays door,
- laid at one door,
- in-sinuates,
- laying ones door,
- lays at door,
- pointing finger at,
- lays at ones door,
- laid ones door,
- laying at door,
- laid one's door,
- re-lated,
- in sinuated,
- lay at one door,
- laying at one's door,
- laid at door,
- in sinuating,
- in-sinuating,
- laying at ones door,
- laying one door,
- lay one door,
- lays at one's door,
- points finger at,
- in-sinuate,
- lays ones door,
- lays one door,
- lay ones door.
- wrapt up in,
- de-note,
- in corporates,
- de note,
- pre suppose,
- pre-occupied,
- de-noting,
- re-quire,
- re-quired,
- de-noted,
- pre-occupies,
- pre-supposing,
- re quiring,
- pre supposed,
- re quire,
- points to,
- re quires,
- pre-suppose,
- re quired,
- roping in,
- re-quiring,
- wrapping up in,
- snarls up,
- wrapt in,
- ropes in,
- pre occupies,
- rivetting,
- pre-supposed,
- pre-occupy,
- in-corporates,
- rivetted,
- pre supposes,
- in-corporate,
- wrapping in,
- wrap in,
- de notes,
- wraps in,
- wraps up in,
- de noted,
- snarling up,
- pre-supposes,
- pre supposing,
- pre occupy,
- de-notes,
- pre-occupying,
- in corporate,
- de noting,
- re-quires,
- pre occupied.
- chokes off,
- de creased,
- bringing to screeching halt,
- post-pones,
- brought screeching halt,
- re-duces,
- de-creasing,
- de-creases,
- retardating,
- bring screeching halt,
- re duces,
- retardated,
- post pone,
- de-crease,
- closes off,
- bringing screeching halt,
- de crease,
- de creasing,
- re duce,
- de creases,
- brought to screeching halt,
- de-creased,
- brings screeching halt,
- re-duce,
- brings to screeching halt,
- post pones.
- de-feats,
- de-feat,
- embogging,
- embogged,
- re verse,
- embogs,
- de feats,
- re-versed,
- re versing,
- de feat,
- re-verse.
- letted down flaps,
- keeps waiting,
- reducing speed,
- hit brakes,
- hits brakes,
- anchored it,
- loses speed,
- eased off,
- back-waters,
- winds down,
- reduced speed,
- backwatered,
- hitting brakes,
- losing steam,
- anchors it,
- backwatering,
- re lax,
- back-watering,
- back watering,
- loses steam,
- losing speed,
- reining in,
- lost steam,
- eases up,
- keeping waiting,
- eases off,
- wound down,
- anchoring it,
- easing up,
- kept waiting,
- back-watered,
- back water,
- back waters,
- lets down flaps,
- letting down flaps,
- hits the brakes,
- lost speed,
- winded down,
- back watered,
- reduces speed,
- re-lax,
- hitting the brakes.
Other synonyms:
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- wetland,
- vlei,
- fenland,
- salt marsh.
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- sludge.
- Reefing,
- reduce speed,
- wind down,
- ease off,
- eased up,
- Back-water,
- keep waiting,
- backwaters,
- lose steam,
- reins in,
- Reefed,
- stunting,
- let down flaps,
- easing off,
- lose speed,
- hit the brakes,
- backwater,
- ease up,
- rein in,
- winding down,
- reined in.
- fluid,
- slip,
- Besmoke,
- improper,
- dust,
- Marish,
- ball up,
- trash,
- mat,
- trample under foot,
- slackness,
- Everglade,
- tread under foot,
- inappropriate,
- envelop,
- mucky,
- cloudy,
- besmirch,
- inapplicable,
- excrement,
- smoke,
- manure,
- dregs,
- confuse,
- slob,
- waste,
- refuse,
- miry,
- predicament,
- bilge,
- slap,
- mishandle,
- convolute,
- brand,
- alluvium,
- addle,
- lees,
- botch,
- guck,
- goop,
- entail,
- adhere,
- unsuitable,
- sully,
- marais,
- defame,
- slobber,
- slurry,
- chaos,
- slosh,
- smear,
- louse up,
- slop,
- smudge,
- cesspool,
- sloughy,
- run aground,
- septic tank,
- slacken,
- gumbo,
- bottom,
- pickle,
- drain,
- swill,
- muddle,
- botch up,
- cloaca,
- fix,
- defile,
- falloff,
- precipitate,
- fumble,
- comprise,
- dingy,
- baygall,
- become enmeshed,
- slouch,
- boggy ground,
- residue,
- sewer,
- slack,
- bumble,
- garbage,
- stigmatize,
- reprehend,
- wallow,
- affect,
- rubbish,
- soot,
- sough,
- gunge,
- turbid,
- slur,
- Gombo,
- silt,
- slabber,
- wash,
- Distain,
- fluff,
- dross,
- swampy,
- grunge,
- rattrap,
- murky,
- contain,
- pollution,
- screw up,
- squash,
- mess,
- GAUM,
- bollix,
- marshy,
- get stranded,
- befoul,
- grind to a halt,
- mess-up,
- slab,
- spoil,
- meadow,
- become involved,
- welter,
- junk,
- become meshed,
- Orts,
- buffalo wallow,
- become tangled,
- Sweepings,
- embarrass,
- bungle,
- post,
- sewage,
- Slubber,
- boggy earth,
- cleave,
- embrace,
- sink in,
- stall,
- tarnish,
- Leavings,
- cloaca maxima,
- cohere,
- dump,
- bemud,
- muddied,
- blow,
- stodge,
- splosh,
- scrap,
- foul-up,
- mere,
- taiga,
- jackpot,
- become entangled,
- boggy,
- catch-22,
- drilling mud,
- moorland,
- impute shame to,
- garbage dump,
- flub,
- bottomland,
- vilify,
- pigwash,
- bollocks,
- scum,
- corner,
- sediment,
- bollix up,
- offal,
- blacken,
- show up,
- clay,
- bobble,
- moor,
- irrelevant.
Paraphrases for Mire:
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Forward Entailment
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Reverse Entailment
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Noun, singular or mass
quagmire.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Independent
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Antonyms for Mire:
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v.
Mire Sentence Examples:
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Then, while Rose brought more, Russ began to lay the rails on the quivering mire, side by side but about a foot apart, the ends of the first row of rails being only a few inches from the side of the calf.
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My cousin is not going into the mire again; she shall be freed of it for ever: I speak as her relative now, the representative of her family and of those who care for her happiness and good.
Homophones for Mire:
- memoir, menorah, menorrhea, Myer, myre, manor, marri, murre, mayer, mummery, moore, moon-ray, marry, meir, mr, moaner, mummer, mimir, manure, mary, menurae, moirae, mayor, mohair, muir, myanmar, mri, murrow, monera, Moro, monroe, memory, miri, minor, man hour, Meier, mar, murray, merry, maar, manner, monario, moray, miry, Mary Ii, mara, maimer, munro, maria, menhir, myrrh, marrow, mere, menura, morrow, moor, moirai, monomer, mirror, miner, Meyer, mari, mainer, maori, mwera, mare, MIER, miro, more, mammary, meniere, Mr., moire, Mary I, moneyer, mimer, mower, mohria, moon ray.
Hyponym for Mire:
n.
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state
difficulty.
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